{"id":775,"date":"2026-01-15T07:15:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ethernetservers.com\/blog\/?p=775"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:15:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:15:28","slug":"php-8-2-default-new-shared-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ethernetservers.com\/blog\/php-8-2-default-new-shared-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP 8.2 Now Default on New Shared Hosting Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 id=\"h-php-8-2-is-now-the-default-for-all-new-shared-hosting-accounts\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">PHP 8.2 is now the default for all new Shared Hosting accounts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Going forward, all newly ordered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ethernetservers.com\/shared-hosting\">Shared Hosting accounts<\/a> will be provisioned with <strong>PHP 8.2<\/strong> as standard, replacing PHP 8.1 for new orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019ve made this change because PHP 8.1 has reached <a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/supported-versions.php\">End-of-Life<\/a> and no longer receives official security updates. 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